Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson has asked the community’s help this Christmas season to give back to those in need.
On Christmas morning, a group of volunteers will be out on the streets of Lubbock starting at 6 a.m. to hand out coats, hats, gloves, socks, sleeping bags, blankets and other winter items to those in need.
Robertson said he will keep City Hall open until 9 p.m. today so residents can drop off donations.

Southwest Lubbock Councilwoman Karen Gibson said Monday nothing could change her support for moving roughly $3 million in street light costs out of the city's budget and into Lubbock's electric utility's.
At least not this year.
Noting her breakneck introduction to the city's budget process -- voters elected her last May and public budget work began in earnest in July -- she said she wouldn't change her mind ahead of what's expected to be a final vote Thursday on the city budget.
But she was open to studying how streetlights could be funded over the next year.

There are nowhere near the number of responses needed to call this the will of the city, but those who have sent me an email or commented on Sunday's look at two ideas on how to handle money from LP&L leaned pretty heavily against adding streetlights to the utility's budget.

Councilwoman Karen Gibson will host a community meeting next Monday for residents in her southwest Lubbock district to discuss the city budget and tax rate.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Sept. 13 in the Bowie Elementary School cafeteria, at 2902 Chicago Ave.
Council members could hold a final vote on the city budget on Sept. 16.

A couple of familiar faces this morning -- without much company -- at Lubbock's public hearings on the tax rate and next year's budget.
Mikel Ward, a longtime fiscal activist, and Christopher Starcher, who has been similarly critical of the city's originally proposed plans, both spoke during the 7:30 a.m. hearing.
Ward continued to oppose transfers from water, electricity and other service departments as a way to support Lubbock's general fund.
"If we want to establish trust, we have to call things what they are in this budget and these funds," Ward said.